Writing
Notes from shipping production systems, mostly about the parts that don't show up in the demos.
AI · June 2026 · 9 min
What today's AI actually costs
The bill moved left, from running software to experimenting with it, steering it, and evaluating it. A field report on where the money really goes, and why so much of it never ships.
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Constitutional AI without the philosophy
A working LLM-judge loop with a bounded retry budget and a visible audit trail when it fails to converge.
When to abandon the low-code path
Why I rebuilt my procurement agent from scratch in week three of a three-month internship.
Anti-hallucination through tool grounding
A small experiment in forcing every claim from an LLM agent through a deterministic database query.
Notes on AI-assisted development
Patterns that have held up across six months of work with Claude Code.